DKIM, which is short for DomainKeys Identified Mail, is an email authentication system, which impedes email addresses from being forged and email content from being manipulated. This is achieved by adding an e-signature to each and every email message sent from an address under a particular domain. The signature is published on the basis of a private encryption key that is available on the outbound SMTP email server and it can be validated using a public key, which is available in the global DNS database. In this way, any email message with altered content or a forged sender can be recognized by email service providers. This approach will enhance your worldwide web safety dramatically and you will be sure that any email sent from a business ally, a banking institution, and so on, is a genuine one. When you send out emails, the receiver will also know for sure that you are indeed the one who has sent them. Any email message that appears to be counterfeit may either be flagged as such or may never end up in the recipient’s inbox, based on how the particular provider has chosen to treat such messages.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Shared Hosting

The DomainKeys Identified Mail feature is pre-enabled for all domains that are hosted in a shared hosting account on our cloud platform, so you will not need to do anything yourself to turn it on. The only requirement is that the given domain should be hosted in a web hosting account on our platform using our MX and NS resource records, so that the emails will go through our mail servers. The private encryption key will be generated on the server and the TXT record, which includes the public key, will be published to the global DNS system automatically, so you will not need to do anything manually on your end in order to enable this feature. The DomainKeys Identified Mail validation system will enable you to send trustable e-mails, so if you’re sending a newsletter or offers to customers, for instance, your email messages will always reach their target viewers, whereas unsolicited 3rd parties won’t be able to forge your email addresses.

DomainKeys Identified Mail in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All mandatory DomainKeys Identified Mail records will be created automatically by our cloud web hosting platform when you add a domain name as hosted in a semi-dedicated server account, so in case you decide to purchase a semi-dedicated hosting package, you won’t have to set up anything to be able to use the email authentication system. The domain should use our name servers in order for its DNS records to be managed by our company and if this requirement is met, a private encryption key will be created on our email servers and a public key will be sent to the DNS system by a special TXT record. All addresses that you set up using the domain name will be protected by DKIM, which will make it impossible for third parties to forge any address. Both you and your associates or clients can take advantage of this option, as it will ensure a much higher security level for your email correspondence.